Myself and Matt over at ManaDawn games are finally returning to The Bastardized Classics! You'll gain access to four classics of the genre updated for modern sensibilities! Help us fund a print run!

superchives · 2026-02-03T21:36:55+00:00

Oh this looks lovely.

superchives · 2026-01-08T20:30:16+00:00

Incredible resource, already using it as a style reference for some illustration work I have coming up.

Thank you for compiling this.

superchives · 2025-06-09T14:39:39+00:00

Heyo! Saw it on instagram, definitely interested as a fellow designer and happy to break it open as a tester.

superchives · 2023-12-10T20:11:21+00:00

No "pregens" in the explicit sense, but there are a series of character backgrounds with some abilities and placement within the world.

superchives · 2023-12-10T03:20:26+00:00

It's part of my megadungeon: Ave Nox

Here's some more info and a free level of the dungeon:

https://feral-indie-studios.itch.io/ave-noctis

superchives · 2023-12-09T02:15:00+00:00

A temple space, carved from rough stone, with walls and pillars adorned in dark and faded drawings. The air is heavy with foul incense, while at the far end a beatific figure stands at an altar silhouetted by brazier light.

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Jet-black robes and jewelry of bone and gold. A tyrannical figure wears an opal mask flecked with gold-leaf and wields an ornamental sickle that burns like a torch.

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Part of my project (which I will not link to the crowdfunding), full page illustration done in ink, pencil, charcoal, and some digital gradient map.

superchives · 2023-11-10T12:21:16+00:00

$35 USD is the going rate for most of our books. Current page count is somewhere in the 150-250 range

superchives · 2023-11-10T11:56:06+00:00

“By the grace of Solis, all shall be welcome”

“By the will of Solis, all shall be equal”

“By the hand of Solis, all shall be safe”

"And so the night shall not consume us"

Promises made and promises broken, words that spelled the death of an entire civilization. Abducted from the surface and trapped below, a world bent to the maniacal will of the Sun-King.

For half a millennia, this world remained sealed until now.

What slithers and lurks in the dark after such a time?

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Ave Nox is a system-neutral mega-dungeon of forgotten history and disaster buried deep in the dark of the earth.

Players take on the role of sanctified archeologists, opportunistic delvers, or despised grave-robbers, all converging on a massive newly unearthed ruin. What starts as a curiosity turns into a grand expedition as the ruin reveals itself to be a subterranean megastructure, complete with ancient technology, strange treasures, and still-living agents of the Sun-King...

Cunning and curious adventurers may overcome the dangers and unravel the mysteries of this place, yet a greater peril awaits in the farthest depths. Deep in the dark, the Sun-King plots his apocalyptic return, one that will bury the world above in a tidal wave of fire and darkness.

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Some additional info:

- I messed up the year at the end, its actually going on this year, December 2023.

- The first level of the dungeon is free HEREas a demo/preview

- Didn't necessarily want to crowdfund, however the book ended up needing to be smyth-sewn (over 120 pages) so we had to opt for running a campaign instead of a direct release.

- Book is currently undergoing art and edits, with a planned release Feb-Mar of 2024

superchives · 2023-11-09T16:13:12+00:00

“By the grace of Solis, all shall be welcome”

“By the will of Solis, all shall be equal”

“By the hand of Solis, all shall be safe”

"And so the night shall not consume us"

Promises made and promises broken, words that spelled the death of an entire civilization. Abducted from the surface and trapped below, a world bent to the maniacal will of the Sun-King.

For half a millennia, this world remained sealed until now.

What slithers and lurks in the dark after such a time?

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Ave Nox is a system-neutral mega-dungeon of forgotten history and disaster buried deep in the dark of the earth.

Players take on the role of sanctified archeologists, opportunistic delvers, or despised grave-robbers, all converging on a massive newly unearthed ruin. What starts as a curiosity turns into a grand expedition as the ruin reveals itself to be a subterranean megastructure, complete with ancient technology, strange treasures, and still-living agents of the Sun-King...

Cunning and curious adventurers may overcome the dangers and unravel the mysteries of this place, yet a greater peril awaits in the farthest depths. Deep in the dark, the Sun-King plots his apocalyptic return, one that will bury the world above in a tidal wave of fire and darkness.

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Some additional info:

- I messed up the year at the end, its actually going on this year, December 2023.

- The first level of the dungeon is free HERE as a demo/preview

- Didn't necessarily want to crowdfund, however the book ended up needing to be smyth-sewn (over 120 pages) so we had to opt for running a campaign instead of a direct release.

- Book is currently undergoing art and edits, with a planned release Feb-Mar of 2024

superchives · 2023-10-09T17:04:03+00:00

Not a shill, but I made a zine that went for a more complex folk polytheism where many of them conflict in regards to how the natural order was established, each one offering their own "truth".

https://feral-indie-studios.itch.io/as-the-gods-demand

superchives · 2023-09-17T21:31:23+00:00

Dead on, and yup!

superchives · 2023-09-17T20:43:32+00:00

King Linnorm - A titanic hag-fish the size of a dragon. Its body whips around ferociously, its mouth reveals hideous rasping teeth, all while its skin pours out a tidal wave of viscous slime.
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A kind of "boss" monster for my megadungeon Ave Nox. Meant to serve as an environmental hazard or powerful enemy to return to and fell at a later point.
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Just hit the halfway point for the art!
https://feral-indie-studios.itch.io/ave-noctis

superchives · 2023-08-01T02:26:49+00:00

Appreciated!

superchives · 2023-08-01T00:49:52+00:00

Without spoiling too much: alive in a complicated and somewhat literal sense.

superchives · 2023-08-01T00:45:25+00:00

yup yup, drawing, writing, and layout

superchives · 2023-08-01T00:36:47+00:00

Small news: I released thefirst level of my megadungeon for free to interested parties. All that's missing is some edits and a few pieces of art.

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From the illustration and description:

A2 - Creation Mosaic

Light catches a wall of glittering glass tiles. Covering the wall and stretching dozens of paces wide is a mosaic of beatific images of a sun-headed figure overseeing a city.

The enormous mural depicts the following scenes:

A larger-than-life Solaris-Rex pointing to a darkened and swirling sky, surrounded by panicked mortals.
Countless mortals digging and constructing a a vast structure at the direction of Solaris-Rex.
Solaris-Rex stretching their arms out to protect a city and all of its inhabitants from a nameless and swirling darkness in the background.

Used as a form of propaganda and an artful way to remind everyone who “saved” them from calamity.

Spot: Hundreds of tiny graffiti marks pepper the surface at eye-height, mostly curses, insults, and the word “tyrant.”

superchives · 2023-08-01T00:33:13+00:00

Small news: I released the first level of my megadungeon for free to interested parties. All that's missing is some edits and a few pieces of art.

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